Fun Facts of the Day

Have you ever checked out the website shine? It’s addicting. It has articles on everything from fashion to health and fitness to relationships and everything in between. It’s a great website to check out if you’re bored at work!
Here are some fun facts that I learned today…
~The average woman spends $13,000 on cosmetics during her lifetime!
~City workers in Detroit can no longer wear perfumes or other smelly toiletries to work, including deodorant. A woman sued the city claiming a coworker’s perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and do her job. She won $100,000!
~A mother of 2 has the goal of weighing 1,000 pounds. She currently owns the Guinness Book of Records for being the world’s biggest mother at 601 pounds.
~A restaurant in New York City has a new cheese appetizer that is made from breast milk! Disgusting.
~Adding lemon juice to your dishwasher detergent can help boost it’s grease cutting power.

What Don't You Know

Yesterday I was asked the question “Tell me something you don’t think Ben knows about you yet but you hope he’ll find out.” That is a tough question! I’d like to think Ben knows most things about me at this point! But it got me thinking, what don’t people know about you? I thought it would make a good blog post. So here it goes…..
~I get terrible road rage
~Sometimes I fight going to sleep like babies do…minus the screaming and crying
~I always light a candle when I get home from work
~I usually wear my hair in a ponytail. I think it makes my face look thinner!
~I have to have background music on when I read…otherwise it makes me feel a little lonely
~Pancakes are my favorite breakfast food. Especially chocolate chip ones!
~I vacuum my mattress to make sure I don’t have dust mites
~I prefer my toilet paper to go over rather than under
~I wear my watch on my right hand even though I’m right handed
~I eat pudding with graham crackers and not a spoon

A Night Out With My Parents

Friday night Ben and I took my parents out to for a night on the town. First we went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner to celebrate his birthday. Then we took them over to Trios for jazz music. My dad loves jazz music and Trios is one of my favorite places to go downtown. It was a great night!

The band at Trios

Trios

Union Station in the Snow

I love this picture!

How Cute is this?!?

My sister surprised me with an awesome gift last week! Check it out!! It's perfect for all of my wedding magazines, paperwork and my laptop! Love it!

Busy Weekend!

This last weekend was a busy one! On Friday, Ben surprised me at work some flowers. He picked my favorites- calla lilies and star gazers. So pretty!!


That night we had some new friends over to watch the Nuggets and Lakers game and we made sushi. It was a lot of fun! And the Nuggets won!
Saturday we had our second tasting. The food was delicious and we had cake that was amazing!!
Later that afternoon we headed up to Eaton to spend time with our friends Eric and Erin. We had a great night in full of games.
On Sunday we headed over to Collin's house for the Super Bowl. Collin is one of Ben's best friends and hosts Super Bowl parties every year. It was good game and good time with friends.

I'm back!

It's been a LONG time since I last updated my blog. A lot has happened since then, that's for sure!

Holiday Update:

I had a great Holiday Season. We went to Nebraska to visit Ben's family and I have to say it was a little hard for me to be away from my family at Christmas. I did have a good time visiting and getting to spend time with my soon to be in-laws.

And, I got to spend some good, quality time with my sister and brother-in-law after we got back. We went on an awesome sleigh ride in Estes Park and went ice skating as well.

This was the second year in a row we spent New Years Eve together. We went to a friend's house party and rang in the new year with our friends.

I also asked my sister to be my matron of honor. I bought her a little custom cookie that said "Will you be my matron of honor?" I thought it was the cutest thing ever and couldn't wait to give it to her! Now if only she would move home and help with all of the planning....

New Years Eve

Her Matron of Honor Cookie!

The sleigh ride in Estes

Wedding Update:

Ben and I have set a date and picked a venue. We're getting married in Estes Park at Della Terra Mountain Chateau. It's absolutely gorgeous!! We both fell in love with it when we took a tour. We're getting married on October 4th, which is a Monday, kinda crazy I know, but we're really excited about it. Not only are saving a ton of money by doing it on a Monday, but we'll also get to spend more time with our out of town family and friends.

And, I already have my dress! I feel beautiful in it. I went dress shopping while my sister was in town over Christmas. I only tried on 7 dresses before I found the perfect one! I can't post any pictures... occasionally Ben will check my blog and I don't want him to see it before the big day. And I ordered purple shoes to go with it!

We've already started checking out caterers and photographers.

I never knew planning a wedding would be so busy and so stressful!!